SaaS Acquisitions
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
Startup Acquisition Stories 
Startups For the Rest of Us
6 statements about SaaS Acquisitions, every show
Vollset: Break-even SaaS with teams are worth more than solo-founder profitable SaaS
“So it's much more valuable to you as an acquirer if those two founders have sat down and actually put like a team in place and like made themselves a little bit of a less of a key person risk for the acquirer. And that's why like it's, yeah, you might've been …”
Vollset: SaaS stock purchases become common around $1M ARR threshold
“My rule of thumb is like around about a million of ARR typically, it starts to become much more common to do stock purchases.”
Levy-Garboua: Stagnant or declining SaaS targets pose severe hidden failure risk
“What is hard is when the business is not growing anymore or declining, despite having a lot of inbound or being very profitable, because you don't know why, what is broken and how, and you don't know how much time you'll have until the thing is immediately bro…”
Gazdecki: SaaS deals rarely use earnest money deposits and ease financial diligence
“Surprisingly on let's say the SAS side, we rarely see earnings, earnest money deposits. And then also quality of earnings are typically easier because everything's online, everything's digital.”
Toledano: Buying a SaaS is 'focused chaos' with identifiable problems
“The advantage with something when you buy it is that it's more focused chaos, you know, like you're buying something where you know where the fire is, and you know exactly, like you have a playbook for how to fix it”